Haaland, Bellingham break more records, Nico Paz only second after Messi: UCL stats

Once again, this week's UEFA Champions League matches were at their entertaining best with a few top teams floundered while others maintained their winning form. English clubs Manchester City and Arsenal secured victories (and top place finish in their respective groups) while Newcastle and Manchester United are yet to confirm their qualification to the knockout round after playing out draws.

Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona also qualified to the next round while PSG, AC Milan and Inter Milan are yet to seal their spots in round of 16.

By The Numbers brings you the best stats from this week's Champions League action in Europe:

40

Manchester City's Erling Haaland broke Ruud van Nistelrooy's record for fewest games needed to score 40 Champions League goals. Haaland took only 35 matches while van Nistelrooy did it in 45 games.

Haaland also joined the likes of Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Sergio Aguero, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah as the only 7 players with at least 50 Premier League goals and 40 Champions League goals.
Haaland has scored 12 goals in eight matches vs. RB Leipzig, his most against any opponent.

20 years, 153 days

At 20 years and 153 days, Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham is the third youngest player to score 10 UEFA Champions League goals after Kylian Mbappe (18y, 350d) and Haaland (19y, 212d). Karim Benzema (20y, 307d) is the only other player to score 10 UCL goals before his 21st birthday.

11

With his goal and assist against Napoli, Jude Bellingham (8 goals, 3 assists) has equalled Haaland for the second most goal contributions – 11 — over the last two UCL group stages. Only Kylian Mbappe has more (13).

4

Bellingham also became the first Real Madrid player to score in his first four Champions League matches for the club.

0

The 0-0 draw against Copenhagen is the first time Bayern Munich failed to score in a UCL home game since April 2018 vs Sevilla (0-0 draw), snapping a 26-game goal streak at Allianz Arena.

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